On April 20, 1999, 17
days before his graduation, Dylan Klebold and his friend Eric Harris, killed 13
people, wounded 24 more before shooting themselves to death at Columbine High
School. It was one of the worst school shootings American history.

On April 20, 1999, 17
days before his graduation, Dylan Klebold and his friend Eric Harris, killed 13
people, wounded 24 more before shooting themselves to death at Columbine High
School. It was one of the worst school shootings American history.

When Mona
Hanna-Attisha took the stage at TedMed 2016, I assumed she would start out
by telling the story of how she discovered that children in Flint, Michigan
were being poisoned by lead after cost-cutting measures led the city to use the
filthy Flint River as the primary water source for its citizens.

When David R.
Williams, PhD, MPH, started his career, most researchers focused only on racial
differences in education and income. But while economic status matters for
health, there is more to the story of racial differences in health care. That’s
why Dr. Williams developed a scale to measure the impact of discrimination.

Last Wednesday, in a
large conference room aptly named “The Hive,” healthcare entrepreneurs from
around the country rubbed elbows with venture capitalists, pharma
representatives, and strategy consultants attending the TEDMED
conference in sunny Palm Springs, California...

Last Wednesday, in a
large conference room aptly named “The Hive,” healthcare entrepreneurs from
around the country rubbed elbows with venture capitalists, pharma representatives,
and strategy consultants attending the TEDMED conference in sunny
Palm Springs, California...

Being at this year’s TEDMED
fired up neurons in my brain that haven’t been turned on ever or for quite
awhile. Innovative ideas in science, medicine, music, art and techno-fashion
will do that to you...

TEDMED - the health
and medicine arm of TED - was held November 30th to December 2nd this year.
This year's theme was "What If?" As always, the speakers aimed to
inspire and engage, while urging the rest of us to innovate...

Much of the story
of Paul Kalanithi’s death is known, chronicled beautifully in the
memoir When Breath Becomes Air and in this
Emmy-nominated Stanford Medicine video. But each time I watch his
wife, Lucy, speak, I’m reminded how much we can all learn from this young
couple’s approach to Paul’s jarring diagnosis...

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. —
You can’t beat the glitz at TEDMED. Hoisting purple cocktails at a private
resort here in Palm Springs, 750 elite guests hobnobbed last week at the annual
extravaganza — two and a half days of slickly produced talks about medicine and
science, punctuated by parties and concerts...

Repeal and
delay:" Congressional Republicans will move to repeal the Affordable Care
Act immediately, but will delay unwinding it for a few years -- after the 2018
midterm elections. (New York Times) Meanwhile, many in House majority leader
Rep. Kevin McCarthy's home district rely on the bill that he wants to repeal.
(Kaiser Health News, via NPR)

"The US State
Department estimates that, in this country, we've only managed to identify 1%
of the people trafficked here. Human trafficking is a hidden crime and we are
not the best detectives," said Susie Baldwin, MD, MPH, from the Department
of Public Health in Los Angeles County, who is president of the board of
directors of HEAL Trafficking, an organization dedicated to ending human
trafficking...

Many patients seek treatment at medical marijuana dispensaries because
of the superb customer service and sense of control over illness they offer,
not because they consider marijuana a wonder drug, said David Casarett, MD,
chief of palliative care at the Duke University School of Medicine in Durham,
North Carolina…

“Memory, the
biologically encoded information, is the long-lasting and stable change that is
caused by learning,” said Tomás J. Ryan, PhD, a neuroscientist who spoke last
week at TEDMED in Palm Springs, Calif. Through a series of experiments on
targeted memory recall, Dr. Ryan and his colleagues have discovered that
memories thought to disappear in those suffering from amnesia—or Alzheimer’s
disease—may be retrievable...

The world has seen a
number of epidemics during the last 20 years, and due to globalization the
threat of rapid spread has increased. Last week at TEDMED, a physician
expert who was practicing in Vietnam during the outbreak of SARS explained the
fear that comes with an epidemic and what the world has learned from working
together and sharing information...

Lloyd Pendleton grew up on a ranch in rural Utah, an upbringing that taught him values like rugged individualism and self-reliance. When Pendleton saw a homeless person on the street during visits to Salt Lake City, he recalled wondering why they didn't just get a job...

Why is electric shock
therapy, originally invented in the late 1930s, still considered an effective
treatment for alleviating the symptoms of mental illness? Why do some of us
deal with stress better than others…

Anna Young, co-founder of MakerNurse, is bringing rapid prototyping tools into hospital units to enable nurses, other providers, and even patients to problem-solve with innovative do-it-yourself labs within hospitals, with the end goal of ultimately improving patient care.

Getting patients to make healthy lifestyle choices ranks high on every physician’s professional wish list. But realistically accomplishing this goal, especially in a fast-paced health care setting, requires care teams to zero in on what really matters to patients.

Only a scant few years old, CRISPR gene editing technology already is heavily weighted with potential implications for human disease and health. It's already being used to more easily and precisely create genetically modified plants and animals. And for the first time last year, CRISPR was used to genetically modify a human embryo.

I am addicted to TED talks. They breath new life into what was once the boring lecture. Some of the smartest people have now become some of the most inspirational, thanks to the TED format and delivery. TED is now its own global industry which includes smaller, more affordable, TED X talks, a TED video channel and NPR’s TED Radio Hour.

Dozens of people touted as innovators in health and medicine will be in the Coachella Valley for TEDMED, the health-conscious offshoot of the TED Talks speaker series. As many as 800 people are expected to fill the La Quinta Resort & Club for the annual conference, which will be held Nov 18 to 20.

The age when girls start puberty is shifting. In girls, puberty is a sequence of three events, breast development, the growth of pubic hair, and finally, a first period. Recent large studies show that, on average, many girls’ breasts are budding about a year earlier than they used to.

Even when certain types of cancer are fairly easy to treat, doctors often don't detect them until it's too late. But a new type of ultra-sensitive test might change that. A shot of nanoparticles would be designed to travel through your body looking for tumors that other tests might miss. An hour later, you could pee on a simple paper test and get the results.

Hundreds of people surged up the steps of the Kennedy Center in Washington DC this month sporting the iconic oversized badges that only meant one thing – time for TEDMED. This famous – and exclusive – conference from the people behind TED Talks is attended by health innovators from all over the world. The aim is to share diverse, exciting ideas that may change the face of health and medicine across the globe. In this installment of Digital Diversity, Layla McCay – a member of our Media and Research Team – shares her thoughts on some of the most exciting health innovations featured at the event.

Eleanor Bimla Schwarz believes doctors – and mothers-to-be – are making a big mistake if they think pregnancy and childbirth is a nine-month journey that ends in the delivery room. The next months are critical too, she says, because that’s when both mother and baby build a foundation for long-term health through breast-feeding. The window of opportunity is small, she says. Once you’ve missed it, there’s nothing you can do.

“Handheld laboratory” QuantuMDx has unveiled a working prototype of its DNA analysis device that can diagnose disease in under 15 minutes. It’s got promising implications in developing nations in particular, helping health workers quickly diagnose and help control disease like malaria, HIV, gonorrhea and Ebola.

Two weeks ago I attended WPP Stream Health in Orlando, the "unconference" hosted by Grey Healthcare and ended in San Francisco at TEDMED 2014. The theme of both gatherings was unleashing imagination and collaboration to redesign our approach to building a healthier world.

TEDMED 2014’s theme was “unlocking imagination,” but it might as well have been “unlocking the mysteries of medicine.” Speakers at the 3-day event, many among the top in their fields, talked as much about what medicine can’t do as they did about what it can. They fessed up about their ignorance and admitted their mistakes.

Nora Volkow, MD, is director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. She was a featured speaker at the 2014 TEDMED Conference, where she talked about the role of addiction in obesity. She answered some questions for WebMD after her talk.

Sold-out events in Washington DC and San Francisco will shine international spotlight on innovation and imagination in service of health and medicine. Program will be broadcast globally with distribution in more than 130 countries.

Between 40% and 60% of people don't even end up getting the lab tests their doctors ask them to because of the cost, time involved, and perhaps a fear of needles, according to Elizabeth Holmes, who spoke at TEDMED in September.

UC San Francisco Becomes TEDMED’s First Medical Research Institution Partner San Francisco Selected as the First Live Multi-City Host Location To Team With Current Washington, DC Site, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts TEDMED to Convene First Live Multi-City Event September 10–12, 2014

It began for me with a crouton. Not just any crouton, mind you, but perhaps the best crouton I've ever had. I don't know how it came to be so good, but I do know that this crouton was selected with care, diligently adhering to a food strategy that would help a sea of health care devotees view the "health tool" of food selection through a different lens. And that's what TEDMED does best: help us see things through a different lens.

"TEDMED is the Burning Man for health aficionados," said Robin Hogen, RWJF's vice president for communications, one of several RWJF team members who attended the event in Washington, D.C., last week. The event brings together "public health advocates, clinicians, biomedical researchers, break-the-mold thinkers, prodigies, grateful patients and artists," Hogen said.

The final day of last week’s TEDMED 2013 consisted of two sessions, tastefully interspersed with self-reflection and humor by the curators. The first session, “Hiding in Plain Sight,” looked forward to new developments in technology, and data analysis in particular, that can give us new capabilities in healthcare.

I had the pleasure of attending the TEDMED conference last week in Washington DC. I never experienced the event before, but I heard a lot about it. Everyone told me that TEDMED would be unlike any other conference I’ve ever attended. And it was.

There is a lot of discussion about data here at TEDMED 2013, and this is no great surprise. Big data, small data, open data, crowdsourced data – this is the information backbone of science and the key to breakthroughs and innovation.

We’re here at TEDMED 2013, excited to be part of a unique group of people passionate about the future of medicine and curious to walk the path that will take us there. We’ll be reporting through the rest of the week on the talks, demos, and people that make TEDMED the world’s premier medical conference.

This week at TEDMED 2013, Medgadget is excited to partner with Nurture, TEDMED, and a team of clinician-students to debut the “Smartphone Physical,” a collection of smartphone-based devices that can gather clinically-relevant information, ranging from blood pressure to pulmonary function. We’re excited because we’ve been covering many of these devices from their birth to their adoption, and are now reporting on their integration into a whole that is larger than the sum of its individual parts.

I was lucky enough to go to my third TEDMED event recently. Following the previous two at the delightful Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego, this was the first that Jay Walker had created in keeping with his vision to make it the Davos of healthcare, and I have to say, it’s on its way

Over the exhilarating four days this past week, we all fell in love a little bit — with the city, the Center, the meeting, the ideas, and one another. The city was Washington, DC, a touch past its cherry-blossom blush; the meeting was, of course, TEDMED

Here’s the secret to succeeding in business. Ready? First, make a good product that works well and is delivered efficiently. Second, never forget how important your customers are, or you’ll lose them. Repeat

Like children who were suddenly forced to go home after spending three and a half days in Disney World, the delegates slowly made their ways towards the exit of the J.F. Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts as one of the greatest conferences for healthcare innovation concluded

Medgadget is at TEDMED 2012 in Washington D.C. and we’re excited that we did not have to wait a full year to experience the magic again. Though it’s only been six months since TEDMED 2011 in San Diego, much more has changed than the venue and season

Somewhere it is written that the nerds shall inherit the Earth. They got off to a good start last week by taking over the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for three days of provocation and performance art aimed at spreading new ideas among the well-connected and influential in the worlds of health and medicine

Exoskeletons, prosthetic eyes, and an open-heart surgery tool controlled by an iPhone: Last week's TEDMED 2011 conference delivered its trademark glimpse into the future of technology, medicine, and ideas.

Dr. Allen Sills, a Vanderbilt University Medical Center neurosurgeon, offers his take on TEDMed 2011. Sills was among a team of Vanderbilt surgeons and engineers attending the gathering of thought leaders in technology, medicine and health.

TEDMED 2011 finished up with a short morning session for attendees to learn just a little bit more before they checked out of the Del and headed out of San Diego. On the whole, the TEDMED crew once again pulled off a spectacular conference.

A core ideal of the TEDMED conference. I’m in a senior strategic marketing position at Children's Hospital Boston, in a healthcare world in dire need of solutions. What can I do as an individual to spark disruption, change the course?

Health is a system. To solve for health, we must address food, cities, government, work, life, medicine, devices, pathogens, etc. Systems thinking is a shift for many scientists and doctors trained to operate by process of elimination, honing in on a single thing.

Think of it as Pixar meets the National Institutes of Health: A new health initiative designed by internationally renowned art director and technologist Alexander Tsiaras and wellness Guru Dr. Deepak Chopra that aims to visually decipher through images and storytelling all the things going on inside the human body, or as Tsiaras puts it, the marvel of how we are made.

When many of us think of mushrooms, we may think of culinary delights such as Portobello and Shiitake, or we may think of those "magic mushrooms." But the implication of mushrooms is absolutely profound.

Here in the Social Lounge at TedMed 2011 are booths everywhere highlighting new, emerging technologies all geared to help us all live better lives. Here is a sneak peak at a few health lifestyle apps that will soon hit the market.

Where can you learn about the latest innovations in technology, science, health and medical research from the people behind the discoveries – some of the most influential thought leaders in their fields? At TEDMED, the annual meeting of minds...

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